Signal and Noise : Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria /

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Examines the role of media technologies in shaping urban Africa through an ethnographic study of popular culture in northern Nigeria.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Larkin, Brian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Film.
Massmedia, Nigeria.
Urbanism.
Mass media.
Stadt
Massenmedien
Kultur
Film
Mass media and technology.
Mass media and culture.
Civilization.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
05.30 mass communication and mass media: general.
Medias et culture > Nigeria > Histoire.
Medias et technologie > Nigeria > Histoire.
Mass media and culture > Nigeria > History.
Mass media and technology > Nigeria > History.
Nigeria.
Nigeria > Nord
Nigeria > Civilization > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Infrastructure, the Colonial Sublime, and Indirect Rule
  • 2 Unstable Objects: The Making of Radio in Nigeria
  • 3 Majigi, Colonial Film, State Publicity, and the Political Form of Cinema
  • 4 Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema
  • 5 Immaterial Urbanism and the Cinematic Event
  • 6 Extravagant Aesthetics: Instability and the Excessive World of Nigerian Film
  • 7 Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy
  • Conclusion.

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